During a recent practice session

I was playing around with one of my favorite grooves…the James Brown groove.  I decided to change it up a little 🙂

A write-up about a recent Papa John DeFrancesco concert

Here is a story written by Patricia Meyers, a jazz aficionado located in Arizona.  She is very active in keeping all music alive and lists all the gigs on the Music Scene AZ website.  She also attends so many events…I honestly don’t know how she does it. Thank you Pat!! The …

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First Drum Clinic of 2015!!

A 9AM Drum Clinic was a little challenging…you know, brain not working yet, hands and feet still asleep but overall, it was a huge success!! A huge thanks goes to my endorsement companies, Vic Firth drum sticks, Bosphorus Cymbals, KickPort International & Humes and Berg drum cases.

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Exciting start to March 2015

WOW!!  Things really started off with a bang in March.  I was giving some of the artist relations people I spoke with at Winter NAMM 2015, time to dig through all the business cards and emails before I picked up our conversation from where we left off in person. I …

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